Serenity Young

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Anthropologist

Serinity Young lives in New York City where she is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and teaches at Queens College. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990 and has received numerous grants and awards, including a Fulbright and being a fellow at the Center for Writers and Scholars of the New York Public Library. She has done fieldwork in India, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Russia. Three of her books have been written for high school students: "Buddhism: An Introduction, and Hinduism: An Introduction, and Richard Francis Burton: Explorer, Scholar, Spy."

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Works
Image of Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Interviews
Winged victory When Women Could Fly

Religion scholar Serinity Young noticed the famous Greek statue "The Victory of Samothrace" in the Louvre Museum and couldn’t stop thinking about it. She spent more than 20 years investigating winged women and found them everywhere.
Women Who Rule Taking Flight, The Throne, Or The Spellbook: The Ways We Process Anxiety Over Women In Power

It's common in literary and historical accounts of powerful women to make them out to be villains — witches, demons, succubi, changelings — or erase them entirely. Historian Kara Cooney, author Madeline Miller, Religious scholar Serenity Young, and classics scholar Emily Wilson talk about why that might be.
Shows
The women who rule (this hour) Women Who Rule
Websites
qc.cuny.edu